New research found that improving gender equity across the state would increase the state’s income by $15.4 billion and would create 59,000 new jobs. Women earn less than men in every county except Greene.
Just because the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, that doesn’t mean that’s what people feel their time is worth, a Compare.com study discovered.
For the 12th consecutive year, North Carolina s 38,000 minimum-wage workers did not receive a pay raise with the arrival of the new year Friday.
They remain stuck at the federally mandated $7.25 an hour set in 2009.
The majority of N.C. Republican legislators expressed little, if any, interest during the 2019-20 session in a wage hike for private-sector workers.
Constricting minimum-wage increases is that North Carolina s constitution does not allow for voter-initiated referendums, which gives Republican legislative leaders the power to shelve minimum-wage bills.
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